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Croatia v Iceland Would've liked to have seen them both get through...has Litmanen retired yet?...

Was it staunch mag and well known cunt Simon Bird doing the marking?....

) Newcastle United 1-4 Liverpool (September 1987) Liverpool's undressing of Newcastle in the 1974 FA Cup final is probably the most complete performance in fixtures between these two clubs, but the Joy of Six has chuntered on about the brilliance of Alec Lindsay's disallowed pearler, the joyous be-bop stylings of David Coleman's commentary, Kevin Keegan's nod to Total Football, and the pre-match majesty of Bruce Forsyth – from boos to a chorus of Nice One Brucie in 20 seconds, the greatest Wembley performance – before. Anyway, as that final spoke more about the end of an era, Shankly's swansong and all that, let's concentrate on the dawning of one of English football's great sides instead. Going into the Football League's centenary season, champions Everton were expected to retain their title, with George Graham's Arsenal – who had topped the table for three months during the previous season, and ended an eight-year trophy drought with the Littlewoods Cup – hotly tipped to push Colin Harvey's side hard. Liverpool, it's easy to forget, had just lost Ian Rush to Juventus, and there was no guarantee the £1.9m British record signing of Peter Beardsley would gel with the other new boys John Barnes and John Aldridge (who had signed in January but only started twice, albeit scoring on both occasions). "The loss of Rush could well create a goal-scoring vacuum at Anfield," argued your super soaraway Guardian, which to be fair has never promised to underwrite your betting money. Liverpool, as the records show, flew out of the blocks, though the table didn't reflect their fast start – a jiggered sewer under the Kop forced the postponement of their first two home fixtures. They arrived in Newcastle in mid-September in fine fettle, having won spectacularly at Arsenal (a long-range Steve Nicol header) and Coventry (four goals). The home side, despite heavy investment in English football's first Brazilian, Mirandinha, were languishing near the foot of the table after a dismal start under their 1974 Cup final keeper Willie McFaul. Liverpool, in the first live televised game of the season, were about to show the nation what all the fuss was about. Beardsley – getting the bird from the fans of the club he'd just left – released Barnes to set up Nicol for the opener. Aldridge made it two. Nicol would have chipped Liverpool into a 3-0 lead before half-time had Beardsley not wandered offside, but the warnings weren't heeded. Beardsley set up Nicol to make it three, and though Neil McDonald pulled one back from the penalty spot after the otherwise quiet Mirandinha was put on his face by Gary Gillespie, Nicol completed an astonishing hat-trick with a scooped chip after being released by Aldridge down the inside-right channel. Nicol ended the day with a record of six goals in six games from the right-back spot, while Aldridge had yet to fail to score for Liverpool while starting a match. The nation now had a fair idea what was going on. Shame about Newcastle's capitulation, though. Partly because poor McFaul found himself out of work within the month, undressed by Liverpool again, but mainly because the result denied BBC1 viewers up and down the country a different sort of televisual treat. "If, when the game is over, you sense an interview with Mirandinha coming on, please turn down the volume immediately," our very own Stephen Bierley had advised in the weekend's football diary before the match. "The Brazilian's grasp of English is still rather rudimentary, but his vernacular, courtesy of Paul Gascoigne, is coming on a treat." http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/18/joy-of-six-liverpool-newcastle-united Think this was mentioned a while back, perhaps by Stevie?...Steve Nichol hatrick that day....from right back, 6 goals in 6 games what a side.

fucks sakes... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/see-moment-linesman-struck-smoke-2473739

I'd like to see Arsenal win the league, just to show up the thick know nothing bastards calling for Wengers head every 5 mins. Still wouldnt want to pay for a season ticket there mind

Tbf they did work Krul more than we worked Mignolet. Only to be expected with 10 v 11 mind. 7 on target to 4 for us. Including a vital save from the Suarez free kick right at the death. But we still fully deserved a point.

He was an Everton fan as a kid, hardly a true red. Players have only one crack at the chance of a career most would give a kidney for, and they stop being fans, with the very odd exception, very,very quickly. Wayne Rooney was 19 when he left Everton, his family is steeped in support for EFC, but money talks. If Liverpool hadn't won the European Cup in 2005 he's have gone around then iyam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9vQaVIoEjOM#t=49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5os4NFeKFFs

Cheers TM

Only caught snippets of everything; pub was full of yokels: "ere! thayt steffy jerruds scored undred goals since sky invented football"

What did Ginola do in the studio?? @Chez or anyone else? Good performance with 11. Interesting system, they rotated across the front line quite a bit in the first half. Second half as good as we could have hoped for, Dummet not only scored but showed he's not a mug defender either. Good attitude from all the players. Quite pleased. Now, in the words of the song, "bring on the clowns"

Who played Suarez onside just before the penalty?.....

What passes for informed comment on national tv is fuckin lamentable in this country. Am off to the pub to watch this shit. It will be full of plastic scousers who wouldn't know the Anfield Road End from their own bell end's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revie_Plan Using the system Manchester City reached the 1955 FA Cup Final, but lost to Newcastle United 3-1

Yeah, we play that Barcelona system well They won't like playing against Remy and Ben Arfa, that's for sure. Are they playing 3 at the back?.... Mignolet, Johnson, Cissokho, Toure, Skrtel, Sakho, Henderson, Gerrard, Moses, Suarez, Sturridge. Subs: Jones, Agger, Kelly, Flanagan, Alberto, Sterling, Allen.

These have been beat at home by Southampton and only got a point at Swansea. Don't believe the hype.A lot of their victories have been quite narrow. We've played two really poor halves of football all season (Everton and Hull) where we really didn't deserve fuck all. The rest have been mostly competent. We need to score first though to stand any chance of winning this. Confidence is a bit fragile at the best of times, and we're missing Colo. We'll see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWuAc4pnYFc

As far as I remember the first "sack the board" chants were around the christmas of 88 i.e. we knew we were going down then, 4 months after Gazza was sold. Simpler times in those days, and the average teenager's football knowledge is far more broad and refined nowadays due to mass media/internet, but on top of the sales of Waddle and Beardsley it was the last straw for many. It was definetly the first time I'd heard the phrase "lack of ambition" in conjunction with NUFC, but sadly not the last. Am pretty sure Hall wasn't a figure to rally round during sit down protests on the Gallowgate or in the road outside the Strawberry, it was just youthful exuberance mostly. Me and my mate Gog were on front page of the Journal at the time, I think the picture is on that facebook page with all the old NUFC piccies on it. I don't think I'd heard of "the magpie group" or whatever Hall and co called themselves till the second season in divi 2, but I could be wrong in that. Think they were definetly active 89ish . By 91 he was in the Journal every day though.

I think the fundamental unfairness was pretty much illustrated by my family, which went from my old man paying a tax on the rateable value on our home and his small joiner's workshop which was easily affordable, to all five of our family paying the same, with my mother a housewife and me, my brother and sister all at various stages of YTS or training/apprenticeships, none of the 3 of us earning more than £40 a week.The sum went from around £500 in rates to 3k in poll tax. The Duke of Roxburghe is the local landowner paid the same as me. The richest man in Scotland saw his circumstances radically improve on the back of our struggle to pay even half the amount we owed. Agreed about Ashley, his is the only game in town as we speak. Till he accepts the Keegan Consortium's offer

people feel impotent so theyre doing something. even if it is a bit futile. most people are against "the man"...whether its someone like Ashley, big business harming the enviroment, government etc etc...look what we acheived by a bit of action 20 odd years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF5-enWLYGU That basically got rid of an unfair tax and brought down Thatcher So as long as they take a scaffold pole each Ashley should be gone by Monday morning

Have NO seen that particular little beauty

No, its the job of one of the midfield 3 iyam.

See, I think thats where players are lacking nowadays, they seem to need to be instructed to do everything and nothings their own fault if it goes wrong. Its happened enough times for them to have learned what to do now. If Santon or Debuchy have been instructed to push on, all Pardew should then have to say is "make sure you drop in to cover" before the game to the midfileders tbh. Its basic football intelligence and it should be second nature to players at this level.